Headlines • American-US Airways Merger Wins DOJ's OK, With Conditions • Senate Blocks Cornelia Pillard's Nomination to D.C. Circuit • Trial Opens in Retaliation Claim Against Ropes & Gray • Government Foresees Trial Next Year for Suspected Bomber • Justices Struggle Over Scope of Whistleblower Protection • Firm's Fee Dispute Doesn't Belong in D.C., Circuit Says • New Valparaiso Dean has Practical Roots • Redemption is Possible for Disgraced Journalist Seeking To Practice Law • Deja Vu at Jones Day: Firm Hires Six More Supreme Court Clerks • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Gets in the Lobbying Game With less than two weeks to go before trial, the Justice Department has reached a proposed settlement with American Airlines and US Airways, allowing their $11 billion merger to go forward in exchange for major divestitures. Read More » The Senate on Tuesday evening blocked Georgetown law professor Cornelia "Nina" Pillard's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, further solidifying the stalemate over President Obama's picks for the key federal appeals court. Senate Republicans, who... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: DePaul 2014 Clifford Symposium The 20th annual Clifford Symposium will explore Judge Jack Weinstein's impact on a range of topics in civil justice, from torts and the law of evidence, to broader notions about what it means to be a judge and to seek justice in America's courts. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will deliver a special address. April 24-25 at DePaul University, Chicago. law.depaul.edu/clifford2014 | Former Ropes & Gray associate John Ray III's lawyer characterized him as "a man in a hurry" to fit into Ropes' white-shoe world as trial got underway Tuesday on Ray's claims that the firm lashed out at him for filing a discrimination claim. Read More » Prosecutors told a Boston federal judge on Tuesday that they could put accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on trial next fall, while defense lawyers said they need much more time for discovery and to possibly seek a new venue. Read More » Supreme Court justices struggled Tuesday to interpret whistleblower provisions of a federal law in a way that would protect some private company employees who do work for public companies, but not all—not, for example, the gardener who mows the company's lawn. Read More » A fee dispute between Thompson Hine and a former client posed a geographical conundrum: if the Florida-based former client didn't pay the Ohio-based law firm for work in Oregon, and lawyers in Atlanta and the District of Columbia were involved, where should the firm sue? Read More » Valparaiso University has tapped Andrea Lyon as the next dean of its School of Law. Now associate dean for clinical programs at DePaul University College of Law, Lyon represents somewhat of an unconventional choice. Read More » If Stephen Glass is admitted, his character as a lawyer will be continually tested. Read More » New Jones Day associates (left to right): Ryan Watson, Ian Samuel, Charlotte Taylor, Emily Kennedy, Kenton Skarin, David Morrell. For the second year in a row, Jones Day has hired six law clerks who worked for Supreme Court justices in... Read More » With an eye on raising its profile among U.S. policymakers, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., the maker of the antipsychotic drug Abilify, has entered the world of Washington, D.C., lobbying. The Japanese drugmaker has deployed Molly Ryan and Richard Thompson from... Read More » | 
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